Chen Ziang was smart since he was a child, but when he was a teenager, he was bohemian and carefree, and he didn't know how to study at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Later, because swordsmanship hurt people, he began to abandon martial arts and follow the literature, made great plans, declined old friends, read only sage books, and learned knowledgeable person in a few years. In the first year of Emperor Lu Dao (679), Chen Ziang left his hometown and went north to Chang 'an to study in imperial academy, the highest institution of learning at that time, and took the imperial examination in the second year.
It turned out to be the last one. Later, I returned to my hometown of Jin Huashan to study. "Over the past few years, hundreds of books, I never read. You are good at literature, elegant like, a child's cloud character ",which laid a solid foundation for his later innovation in literature." "In the first year of Yongchun (682), Chen Ziang, who had learned something, went to Beijing to take the exam again, which is still unknown.
After the second time, I happened to meet a man who sold Hu Qin. The asking price was one million, and all kinds of rich and noble people were watching it, but no one bought it. Chen Ziang squeezed into the crowd and bought this huqin for 1000 dollars (an ancient unit of measurement). He also announced that the banquet in Xuanyangli in Chang 'an was expensive the next day, and sighed with a harp: "Chen Ziang, a Schumann, with a hundred axes, is nameless. This kind of joy is cheap, you should pay attention. " After that, he smashed the piano and gave his poems to the participants for free. At that time, Zhao Jing and Wang Shi exclaimed after reading it: "This person must be a literate scholar in China!" Then Chen Ziang became famous in Beijing.